Another Remarriage
Anderson's third marriage, to Elizabeth Prall, also failed; and, in 1933, he married Eleanor Copenhaver, whom he had been seeing since they met in 1928. They traveled and often studied together. They were active in the trade union movement. In the 1930s, Anderson published Death in the Woods (short stories), Puzzled America (essays), and Kit Brandon: A Portrait (novel).
In 1932, Anderson dedicated the novel Beyond Desire to Copenhaver. Although he was much less influential in this final writing period, many of his more significant lines of prose were present in these works, which were generally considered sub-par compared to his other works.
Set during the 1929 Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina, Beyond Desire garnered yet another satirical mention by Ernest Hemingway. In To Have and Have Not (1937), he included a minor character who is an author working on a novel of Gastonia.
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